{"id":86440,"date":"2019-01-07T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/genetic-testing-is-the-future-of-healthcare-but-many-experts-say-companies-like-23andme-are-doing-more-harm-than-good"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:09:19","slug":"genetic-testing-is-the-future-of-healthcare-but-many-experts-say-companies-like-23andme-are-doing-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/genetic-testing-is-the-future-of-healthcare-but-many-experts-say-companies-like-23andme-are-doing-more-harm-than-good","title":{"rendered":"Genetic testing is the future of healthcare, but many experts say companies like 23andMe are doing more harm than good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-testing-is-the-future-of-healthcare-but-many-experts-say-companies-like-23andme-are-doing-more-harm-than-good.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> Genetic testing will be a cornerstone of healthcare in 2019, experts say.<\/li>\n<li> There are two ways to do the testing: getting a costly but complete genetic workup through a doctor or opting for a cheaper at-home test like those sold by 23andMe.<\/li>\n<li> Clinicians and advocates criticize the at-home approach, which they say prioritizes convenience over privacy and long-term health.<\/li>\n<li> But entrepreneurs counter that the at-home approach lets more people access information.<\/li>\n<li> Which method will win out, and at what cost?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As millions of Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, the biomedical researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/getprecise\/person\/james-hazel-phd-jd\">James Hazel<\/a> sent out a stark warning about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dna-testing-ancestry-23andme-share-data-companies-2018-8\"> genetic-testing kits<\/a> that he surmised would be a hot topic of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them are neither safe nor private.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/future-healthcare-dna-genetic-testing-23andme-2018-12\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/future-healthcare-dna-genetic-testing-23andme-2018-12\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/future-healthcare-dna-genetic-testing-23andme-2018-12\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/future-healthcare-dna-genetic-testing-23andme-2018-12\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic testing will be a cornerstone of healthcare in 2019, experts say. There are two ways to do the testing: getting a costly but complete genetic workup through a doctor or opting for a cheaper at-home test like those sold by 23andMe. Clinicians and advocates criticize the at-home approach, which they say prioritizes convenience over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86463,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions\/86463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}